Article
Molecular evolution of Drosophila metallothionein genes.
Genetics - 1 Dec 1990
Lange B W, Langley C H, Stephan W
Abstract excerpt
The metallothionein genes of Drosophila melanogaster, Mtn and Mto, may play an important role in heavy metal detoxification. Several different tandem duplications of Mtn have been shown to increase cadmium and copper tolerance, as well as Mtn expression. In order to investigate the possibility of increased selection for duplications of these genes in natural populations exposed to high levels of heavy metals, we...
Topics
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- Drosophila
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Genes
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Metallothionein
- Molecular Sequence Data